1633

This article is about the year 1633. For the novel by David Weber and Eric Flint, see 1633 (novel). For the album by the Japanese artist Merzbow, see 1633 (album).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1600s  1610s  1620s  – 1630s –  1640s  1650s  1660s
Years:	1630 1631 1632 – 1633 – 1634 1635 1636

1633 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1633 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1633 MDCXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2386
Armenian calendar	1082 ԹՎ ՌՁԲ
Assyrian calendar	6383
Bengali calendar	1040
Berber calendar	2583
English Regnal year	8 Cha. 1 – 9 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar	2177
Burmese calendar	995
Byzantine calendar	7141–7142
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4329 or 4269     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4330 or 4270
Coptic calendar	1349–1350
Discordian calendar	2799
Ethiopian calendar	1625–1626
Hebrew calendar	5393–5394
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1689–1690
- Shaka Samvat	1555–1556
- Kali Yuga	4734–4735
Holocene calendar	11633
Igbo calendar	633–634
Iranian calendar	1011–1012
Islamic calendar	1042–1043
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 10 (寛永１０年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3966
Minguo calendar	279 before ROC 民前279年
Thai solar calendar	2175–2176

1633 (MDCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Julian calendar, the 1633rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 633rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 17th century, and the 4th year of the 1630s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1633 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• February 13 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
• March 1 – Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
• April 12 – Galileo Galilei convicted of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church
• June 18 – Charles I is crowned King of Scots, at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
• June 22 – The Roman Catholic Church forces Galileo Galilei to recant his heliocentric view of the Solar System: Eppur si muove (Italian) (Which, in fact, he did not say).

July–December

• October 22 – Battle of Liaoluo Bay: A large Ming dynasty fleet under Zheng Zhilong defeats a Dutch East India Company fleet at the island of Quemoy.

Date unknown

• The Jews of Poznań are granted the privilege of forbidding Christians to enter into their city quarter.
• In Ethiopia, the Emperor Fasilides expels the Jesuit missionaries.
• Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu of Japan begins issuing the Sakoku Edicts outlawing Christianity, beginning a policy of extreme isolationism until 1853.
• Completion of St Columb's Cathedral, Derry, Ireland, the first post-Reformation Anglican cathedral built in the British Isles and the first Protestant cathedral built in Europe.
• Mission San Luis de Apalachee is built in the New World by two Spanish friars.
• A professorship in Arabic studies is founded at Cambridge University.

Births

• January 20 – Edmund Maine, British Member of Parliament (d. 1711)
• January 31 – Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew (d. 1721)
• February 20 – Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (d. 1702)
• February 23 – Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (d. 1703)
• February 26 – Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (d. 1695)
• March 1 – Yi Seo-woo, Korean scholar (d. 1709)
• March 17 – Alessandro Marchetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1714)
• March 25 – Samuel Whiting, Jr., American clergyman (d. 1713)
• March 26 – Mary Beale, British artist (d. 1699)
• March 30
  • Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1708)
  • Miron Costin, Moldavian political figure and chronicler (d. 1691)
• April – Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker (d. 1659)
• April 16 – Salomon Jansz van den Tempel, Dutch shipbuilder (d. 1673)
• April 19
  • Willem Drost, Dutch painter (d. 1659)
  • Abraham Hill (d. 1721)
• April 20 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (d. 1654)
• April 24
  • Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare, English politician (d. 1689)
  • Paolo Boccone, Italian Botanist (d. 1704)
• May 1 – Walter Chetwynd, antiquary, politician (d. 1693)
• May 15 – Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French noble (d. 1707)
• May 21 – Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre, Composser (d. 1678)
• June 1 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
• June 16 – Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
• June 19 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (d. 1712)
• June 27 – Auguste of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, princess (d. 1701)
• July 1 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
• July 6 – Sir Henry Yelverton, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament of England (d. 1670)
• July 25 – Joseph Williamson (politician), English politician (d. 1701)
• September 6 – Sebastian Knüpfer, German composer (d. 1676)
• September 7 – Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, Austrian poet (d. 1694)
• September 8 – Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (d. 1654)
• September 15 – William Croone, English physician, Fellow of the Royal Society (d. 1684)
• October 4 – Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1714)
• October 14 – King James II of England and Ireland, James VII of Scotland (d. 1701)
• October 15 – Giordano Vitale, Italian mathematician (d. 1711)
• October 19 – Benedetto Gennari II, Italian painter (d. 1715)
• October 20 – Antonio Magliabechi, Italian librarian (d. 1714)
• October 25 – Esaias Fleischer (priest), Danish priest (d. 1697)
• November 3 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
• November 10 – Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn, Governor of Jersey (d. 1703)
• November 11 – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer and statesman (d. 1695)
• November 20 – Étienne de Carheil, French Jesuit priest, missionary to the Iroquois and Huron Indians (d. 1726)
• November 26 – Johann Christoph Wagenseil, German Christian Hebraist (d. 1705)
• December 18 – Willem van de Velde the Younger, Dutch painter (d. 1707)
• December 27 – Jean de Lamberville (d. 1714)
• date unknown – Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet, politician (d. 1708)

Deaths

• March 1 – George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
• June – Étienne Brûlé, French explorer (b. c. 1592)
• July 22 – Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (b. 1616)
• August 5 – George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
• August 10 – Anthony Munday, English writer (b. 1553)
• August 12 – Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (b. 1561)
• September – Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (b. c. 1575)
• October 25 – Jean Titelouze, French organist (b. c.1562)
• October 26 – Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
• November 7 – Cornelis Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
• November 14 – William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)
• December 1 – Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)
• December 17 – Meletius Smotrytsky, Ruthenian religious activist and author (b. 1577)
• date unknown – Xu Guangqi, Chinese scientist and mathematician (b. 1562)